1924 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*December - The Bucharest International Modern Art Exhibit, an avant-garde event hosted by "Contimporanul", displaying works by Constantin Brancusi, Hans Arp, Paul Klee, János Mattis-Teutsch, Kurt Schwitters, Michel Seuphor, Miliţa Pătraşcu, Marcel Janco, Victor Brauner, and M. H. Maxy
*The "Surrealist Manifesto" is conceived
*Vilmos Aba Novák's works are on display for the first time
*Daniel Chester French begins work on his statue of Abraham Lincoln (located at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.); completed in 1925
*Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant open a common studio

Awards

*Archibald Prize: William Beckwith McInnes - "Portrait of Miss Collins"
*Tagea Brandt Rejselegat: Anna Ancher

Works

*Tarsila do Amaral - "Estação de Ferro Central do Brasil"
*Constantin Brancusi - "Bird in Space" (early version), "The Cock"
*Carlo Carrà - "San Giacomo di Varallo"
*Edwin Holgate - "Portrait of Albert Henry Stewart Gillson"
*Edward Hopper - "New York Pavements"
*A. Y. Jackson - "In Jasper Park"
*Wassily Kandinsky - "Contrasting Sounds"
*Paul Klee - "Asiatic God", "Carnival in the Mountains", "Flower Garden"
*Fernand Léger - "Elément Mécanique"
*Edgar Bertram Mackennal - equestrian statue of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (Waterloo Place, London)
*Paul Manship - "Statue of Diana" (Hudson River Museum, Yonkers)
*Joan Miró - "Le Piège", "Le Carnaval d'Arlequin"
*Emil Nolde - "Madonna with Begonia"
*Samuel John Peploe - "Roses in a White Vase with Fruit"
*Albin Polasek - "Theodore Thomas Memorial" (Chicago)
*Diego Rivera - "Day of the Dead" and other frescoes at the Ministry of Education building (Mexico City)
*Philippe Robert - frescoes of the Biel train station
*Nicolae Tonitza - "The Forester's Daughter"

Births

January to June

*29 January - Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (d.2001).
*7 March - Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (d.2005).
*8 March - Anthony Caro, English sculptor.
*13 March - Paul Brach, American abstract painter, lecturer and educator (d.2007).
*10 April - Kenneth Noland, American painter.
*20 June - Fritz Koenig, German sculptor.

July to December

*7 August - Georges Lévis, French comic artist (d.1988).
*8 August - Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic (d.2006).
*21 September - David Sylvester, English art critic and curator (d.2001).
*22 September - Charles Keeping, English illustrator, children's book author and lithographer (d.1988).
*26 November - George Segal, American painter and sculptor (d.2000).
*17 December - Clifton Pugh, Australian artist (d.1990).
*24 December - Nissim Ezekiel, Indian poet, playwright and art critic (d.2004).
*24 December - Michael Goldberg, American abstract expressionist painter and teacher (d.2007).

Full date unknown

*Art Brenner - American painter and sculptor.
*William H. Burns, Northern Irish artist (d.1995).

Deaths

*February 1 - Maurice Prendergast, American painter (b. 1858)
*April 18 - Frank X. Leyendecker, American illustrator (b. 1877)
*December 28 - Léon Bakst, Russian painter and theatrical designer (b. 1866)
*"date unknown": Tomioka Tessai - Japanese painter and calligrapher in Meiji period (b. 1837)
* Hans Thoma, German painter (b. 1839)